LessonsChapter Eight: Ijaz, Itnab and Musawah — Brevity, Amplification and BalanceQuiz

وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ
They assign daughters to God—glory be to Him—while claiming for themselves whatever they desire. (An-Nahl 16:57)

«سُبْحَانَهُ» interrupts the report with an expression of divine transcendence. The interruption shows that the false attribution is being rejected, not merely narrated without comment.

Benefit: the listener hears a declaration of God’s perfection at the very point the offensive claim is mentioned. The parenthetical phrase serves a distinct and immediate rhetorical purpose.

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A Qur’anic parenthetical: subhanahu

Chapter Eight: Ijaz, Itnab and Musawah — Brevity, Amplification and Balance

وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ
They assign daughters to God—glory be to Him—while claiming for themselves whatever they desire. (An-Nahl 16:57)

«سُبْحَانَهُ» interrupts the report with an expression of divine transcendence. The interruption shows that the false attribution is being rejected, not merely narrated without comment.

Benefit: the listener hears a declaration of God’s perfection at the very point the offensive claim is mentioned. The parenthetical phrase serves a distinct and immediate rhetorical purpose.